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That’s basically the point though. Websites ask for your phone number because it’s the easiest way to limit abuse. Eventually everyone has a phone number, and v

• gspr 2y ago
  > Eventually everyone has a phone number, and very few have ways to create multiple. I agree that having a phone number often comes with a paper trail in many jurisdiction, but surely it's not common to make it hard to have multiple such numbers?
  • michaelt 2y ago
    It's not unusual for someone to have a home landline phone, a personal cell phone, a work landline, and a work cell phone. In fact it's so common that people in the snooping business already know ways to correlate them.
  • echoangle 2y ago
    It's not hard to have multiple, but it's hard to have on-demand throwaway ones.
• mdp2021 2y ago
  > the easiest way to limit abuse It's also an almost perfect way to limit use (excluding the right people).